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A lot is made of getting things perfect. Â Of reducing flaws in the system down to zero. To get it exactly, precisely and perfectly right - all things moving exactly how we imagine it.
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Call it excellence or best practice or whatever you like, but you get the idea. And of course, there's nothing wrong with that. It’s a noble pursuit a lot of leaders aspire to.
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So we pursue having it just so; making each aspect of your team and operation completely in order, predictable, and perfectly in line. If you work hard enough at this process, you'll have all your ducks in a row and everything working interdependently and perfect.
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And while this may seem like a fantastic goal to devote resource toward, it shouldn’t be.
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In our desire to remove all the valleys that delay or divert our frameworks and teams, we also remove all the mountaintops.
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You can’t have one without the other.
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In reality, having everything in a perfectly controlled state will instead stifle your creativ...